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by thetable 5685 days ago
The other kind of vandalism has happened too, where houses were requested to be taken down / pixelated by someone other than the owner or tenants. There was a news report about this happening to the Green party headquarters last week, and according to Google, it couldn't be undone because Google had deleted the data (imagine that).
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Completely deleting the photos of houses people requested to be blurred was one of the requirements of the government. (It’s not a law but a voluntary agreement. The government did, however, threaten to regulate services like Street View. That’s probably not going to happen now.)